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Michirin
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Artist, Game Developer, wlw (she/her) Support my work: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3303290/Kira_Kira_Magical_Stars/ https://michirin.itch.io/ https://www.youtube.com/@Michirin9801 https://michirin9801.bandcamp.com/ https://ko-fi.com/michirin9801
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · Nov 12
Kira Kira Magical Stars is Out NOW On #Steam!
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Pls buy it~❤️‍

#indiegame #release #retrostyle #pixelart #chiptune
Save 15% on Kira Kira Magical Stars on Steam
The Monster Queen has invaded town and captured your friends! Pick your stage, explore, fight monsters, save your friends, and play as them in this top-down shooter inspired by classic handheld gaming...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 20h
What really shocked me though, is that I remembered more characters from 3 than 4, despite the fact that I played SF4 A LOT back around 2015~2017, and Barely played SF3...

But then again, some of the characters in 3 returned in 4 so there's that...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 20h
Did this quiz here:
www.sporcle.com/games/g/stre...
Couldn't even get half of them...

Without spoiling the list, I got everyone from SF1 and 2, most from Alpha, just a few from 3, 4 and 5, only one from 6, and none at all from EX, which like, does that even count?!?! >w>';
Screenshot of the results of the quiz: "Can you name the characters from the Street Fighter series?" by BlueWingX on Sporcle. I got 44% (48 out of 109). The average is 35%.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 1d
"Sness" for short, but I mostly just call it the "Super Nintendo".
I mean, it's what it says on the console (you can barely read "Entertainment System" in that small print anyway)

As a kid, learning that there was a Nintendo before the Super Nintendo was like, "Wait really? What was it like?!?!"
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 1d
Hudson had some Incredibly Talented people in their sound team, they really took that mess of a soundtrack Capcom put out in the arcade and made something AMAZING out of it!
Street Fighter AST Theme of Eagle
YouTube video by ss4shenlong
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 1d
I've been lowkey obsessed with Street Fighter 1, or rather, Fighting Street lately... Yes, the PC Engine CD version.

It's NOT a very good game but, there's something so utterly fascinating about it, being such a formative title in the genre, and yet so incredibly jank... But it SOUNDS SO GOOD!!
Street Fighter AST Theme of Gen
YouTube video by ss4shenlong
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 3d
Made a Nitroplus Blasterz tierlist.
Too precious for this game: Aino Heart. Cute Enough: Super Sonico and Mora. I feel sorry for her: Anna and Muramasa. Whatever: Homura, Saber and Ignis. Boring: Al Azif and Ein. Disgusting: Ethica, Ouka, Ruili and Saya.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 3d
You can run it from disc on RPCS3 if you have a bluray drive and your PC is up to snuff... Otherwise, the game is on the Steam Autumn Sale, which is how I got it.

Like I said though, the gameplay is *Crazy Fun* but you do kinda have to tolerate some bad taste with some of these characters...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 3d
And then there's Super Sonico, who's mostly just a fanservice character, but what I liked about her is that she doesn't actually attack, instead it's her cats and her friends who attack for her while she just stands there looking confused, and that makes her hilarious and kind of adorable to play~
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 3d
Besides Aino Heart, who is too precious for this game, and I already loved from her own game, there's Mora, who's a vampire hunter who is also a vampire, she's REALLY Fun to play, and has a cute side beneath her edge.

There's the robot maid who's just a total airhead, she's cute enough I guess.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 3d
Most of them range from only just kinda tolerable to straight-up unlikable or even gross... It's like, the opposite of Arcana Heart, where everyone has a wholesome or at least endearing quality about them...

Most are just edgeladies, but not all, and there's a few I did like!
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 3d
So, I've played most of the characters' stories in Nitro+ Blasterz and well...
It's an all-girl fighting game, which is like, EXACTLY My Kinda Thing, and like, the gameplay is Incredibly FUN! Like, srsly, it's frickin' Awesome!!

It's just a shame that I kinda don't like a lot of the characters...
Nitroplus Blasters Title Screen. Screenshot of Nitroplus Blasters featuring Super Sonico, her 5 cats and her drummer friend eating a meatbun. Screenshot of Nitroplus Blasters. "Yay!! I get to pet that cats!! Thank you, Sonico! Come on, come here!" Says Aino Heart, looking happy.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 3d
It is, they're just dumb...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 4d
Oh yeah, it also doesn't have ads, it doesn't install $#!t you don't want without your consent, it doesn't have AI bull$#!t, it doesn't interrupt everything you're doing to update, it actually has really good compatibility all the way back to Windows 2000!
It's legit the best PC OS ever.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 4d
1 - It didn't spy on you.
2 - It looks GORGEOUS~❤️
3 - It has More Than ONE theme, and you can customise the colours thereof.
4 - It ran like a champ on 2 GB of RAM!
5 - It wasn't quite as bloated as Vista.
6 - It came with the best pixel-art program pre-installed!
And Vista is actually underrated AF
Screenshot of YouTube short: "What made Windows 7 so groundbreaking?"
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 4d
Step 1 is to realise the likes of Keith Starmer, Mark Carney and the Democrats aren't left-wing.
Screenshot of YouTube video: "What Mexico can teach western leftwingers." by TLDR News Global. The Thumbnail says: "Why Mexican leftism works." it shows Claudia Sheinbaum's approval rate of 82% compared to Keir Starmer's 27%
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 4d
Agreed, which is why I'm so into colour hacks ;3
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 5d
Me watching 8 bit music theory.
Screenshot of Utagoe wa Mille-Feuille. "Awesome. Not that I can read a thing." says Ururu while reading some sheet music. She's standing next to Kumai.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 6d
Me: "This boss is bull$#!t"
>beats it first try as two different characters.
My gf: "You're not selling me on how difficult this is" xD

Well, it wasn't the worst, but I DID lose a lot before I learned those two characters...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 6d
Spreading the Bomberman love!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL66...
Bomberman Direct – 2025 (Unofficial)
YouTube video by Hat-Loving Gamer
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 6d
I have yet to actually finish a Final Fantasy game, so I'll hold off on that...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 6d
I made a big ol' post about Star Wars...
It's coming up on 10 years since The Force Awakens came out, so I just put my possibly final thoughts on the series out there...
Here it is if you wanna read the scrambled sleep-deprived thoughts of a jaded late millennial:
www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx9rl...
Post from Michirin - YouTube
I was having a bit of a think about Star Wars because it's coming up on 10 years since the release of The Force Awakens... And frankly, these might just be m...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 7d
It 120% was a mistake. I was against it from the very beginning.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 7d
This is the kind of thing that made me distance myself from gaming spaces... Well, the bigotry, and that kind of *Astonishingly Bad* taste as well, but that's subjective ofc...
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 7d
The video, and my comment.
Screenshot of YouTube Video: "How we're designing Audacity for the future" by Tantacrul. The thumbnail shows the old logo, and the new one. My comment: Ok, first off, I AM one of those people who installed Audacity 10 years ago and never bothered to update, and I'm honestly surprised at how many of the changes I agree with. However, I'm apprehensive of any inclusion of AI in the program whatsoever and its presence makes me not want to update at all. As for the new logo, I hate it. I hate everything about it. It looks painfully corporate, all the colour and vibe is gone, the headphones being deformed and disconnected on one-side makes me hate it even more... Frankly, looking at the old logo in the version I've got, sure you could call it dated, but I'd say it has Infinitely more personality and doesn't reek of corporate soullessness... I think this trend of simplifying every logo needs to get chucked off a cliff and die.
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Michirin @michirin.bsky.social · 7d
In the GBA remakes they subbed out the SNES for a lil' NES which was an interesting decision, but they still kept the SNESes in the department store.
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